Why is an entertainment conglomerate scooping up a DC book agency? michaelschaffer looks into Hollywood’s Washington aspirations in this week’s Capital City column:
Michael Schaffer is a senior editor at POLITICO. His Capital City column runs weekly in POLITICO Magazine.
On the industry side of the equation: It’s all about gigantism. WME, where Ross Yoon principals Gail Ross and Howard Yoon are now partners, is part of Endeavor, the publicly-traded entertainment behemoth led by legendary superagent Ari Emanuel. “It’s an IP supply chain,” said Larry Weissman, an agent based in Brooklyn, who works with a similar list of writers but has kept his agency independent. “You’re buying an IP supplier.”
Ross’ agency was actually not the first example of a D.C. talent rep being acquired by a big fish of the entertainment industry. Rafe Sagalyn’s agency, which represents boldface Beltway writers like David Ignatius and Eugene Robinson, last year became part of the mammoth CAA agency, having merged a few years earlier with ICM, another Hollywood-based firm.
and his administration have been slow in coming — and slower in selling. The only vaguely Washington book on the most recentbestseller list is by Utah Congressmember turned Fox commentator Jason Chaffetz. Conventional wisdom has it that American book buyers, movie goers and TV streamers want escape, not reports from the front lines of our national tumult.
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